Uses — Distributed Collaboration

Uses

Distributed Collaboration

The Open Semantic Framework has an explicit
design to support distributed collaboration. This network design
is responsive to a broad spectrum of interests, locations and
organizations. Every object in an OSF installation — from
all properties and entities to entire datasets, results sets or
ontologies — gets a Web identifier (URI). Each OSF installation
itself also has unique identifiers.

Different access rights and privileges can be assigned to these
digital assets, specifically:

By dataset

By Web service (tool), and whether that tool can potentially
support create, read (access), update or delete (CRUD) operations

The combinations of these rights can govern any imaginable access
and use scenario, including access or management of multiple,
distributed OSF instances. Collaborations may therefore be
established on any organizational, informational or geographical
scale. Differential access and rights can vary across instances,
datasets and geography.

The same broader capabilities of various OSF applications can be
integrated with these distributed capabilities. Thus, the
distributed network design at the heart of the OSF architecture
may be applied to these other OSF applications: